We planted some corn in spring. It is glass gem corn, which if you've ever seen it, you'd be like "wow". Anyway, it can be dried and ground into meal and made into tortillas. it is also a poppable corn. So I did that because it's easy and fun and instant gratification almost.

Ours isn't as amazing looking as some other photos you can find, but check this **** out!

Do you know hard it is to search for the term "Eggplant" on this forum, and find one specific post? It produces a *LOT* of hits...

Anyway, it was pretty good. Somehow I was anticipating that it would be overly salty (I dislike foods which are overpoweringly salty), and while it does have a fair bit of sodium, it wasn't oppressive.

Pretty darned yummy, in fact. Would buy again.

Haven' made anything exotic in a couple of weeks. Been honing the pizza skills (getting pretty good with the crust now that I've abandoned the stone), and have done the black beans & rice again for home consumption. Still finishing off the last of the most recent batch. I excluded the pork this last time, and that was a mistake.

I've tried a few of TJ's pizzas, and was massively unimpressed. This seems to be true of frozen pizza in general. Pizza is something you can easily do 100% from scratch at home, with relatively few ingredients and not a lot of prep time, and get far better results.

I'll tell you who does make good frozen Indian entrees; Amy's Kitchen. You usually find them in the small hippie / vegan / organic / non-GMO section at the far end of your grocer's freezer case, and they're easy to overlook because of that, but they're quite yummy.

In my apartment complex, a load of phone books was recently dropped off in the mail room. I honestly didn't know they still had phone books. I took one more out of curiosity / novelty value than anything else.

That said, the phone book has lost weight. When I first started coming to NYC for work about 15 years ago, the Manhattan phone book was three volumes, each about the size of the OED. Now it's more like Reader's Digest.

Relevant content: The phone book is a place you can look to find food, assuming you have no interest in knowing which restaurants are actually near you and / or deliver to your building, their operating hours, their menus and prices, etc.